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If you’ve struggled to find joy in 2020, you’re not alone. It’s been a year like nothing we’ve ever known. Disruptions in our lives, our jobs, our ministries, and our families have…

By Faith McDonald Last winter, at the nearly-complete point of a writing project I’d been working on, my enthusiasm waned. The effort required to complete the manuscript and send it…

By Yvonne Ortega I attended the first-ever Virtual Speak Up Conference July 8–10, 2020. One of my responsibilities was to facilitate virtual prayer sessions and a writer’s track session. With…

By Yvonne Ortega The live training of the past is now virtual in many cases. It may remain so because of the pandemic, its side effects, and the savings from…

By Sheila Qualls As the mother of three black sons, the tragic death of George Floyd cut me deep. As I watched Floyd cry out for help and struggle to…

My first conversation of the day began with a text among close friends. “It’s sobering to see how very quickly our world has been shaken. I often find that all…

If your audience finds your message irrelevant or struggles to see the relevance, they’ll likely tune it out. To avoid this, we need to make sure we’ve taken time to…

Is Anybody Listening? Do ever get the feeling that everybody’s talking but nobody’s really listening? The daily influx of clutter, distractions, and decisions increases at a steady pace. We’ve got…

In Part 2, you will go through the ways to use the foundational phrase in the first point of your presentation. We covered the niche and the foundational phrase in…

What are you passionate about? What could you speak or write on that you would forget to eat a meal or stay up late to prepare for it? That’s your…